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...tank of his truck each for the commute to his job at a shelving factory 18 miles away. Fourth-grade teacher Mary Rasp, a fifth-generation resident of Elkhart, had been strolling with her visiting 10-year-old grandson Sam, and rushed over to shake Obama's hand. A Democrat, she will be voting for Obama in Tuesday's Indiana primary, she said. "Yes I am - and I know Republicans who are switching, even within my family...
...four years protected more land than Clinton, and supported what would become the Superfund toxic waste cleanup law? (To those of you who would say Al Gore, well, it might be time to let that one go.) Whoever might claim the title, surely it would have to be a Democrat - since everyone knows that Democrats are tree-huggers, and Republicans see the Earth as something that gets in the way of oil, right...
Disaster Relief: A new program to compensate farmers hit by drought or flooding could get $3.8 billion over four years. Farmers now get emergency aid for disasters like flood or drought on a case-by-case basis, but payments can take years. Sen. Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, says the new program would allow farmers to borrow more money more quickly, and plant "fence row to fence row" to "give us a market response to these high prices...
...wins more than 50% of the votes outright, then all but the top two candidates are eliminated and any second-preference votes for the leaders are added to their tallies. The Green Party is encouraging its supporters to give their second vote to Livingstone; some fans of the Liberal Democrat candidate Brian Paddick, once the highest-ranking openly gay officer in London's Metropolitan police, may opt to allocate their second vote to Johnson. A clever Conservative ploy to mobilize voters in London's outer, more suburban boroughs, who have tended not to vote in mayoral elections, could also...
...evils. These match-ups provide Americans with clear choices on the war in Iraq, health care, cures for the economy and judicial appointments.On the Republican side, the nominating process produced McCain, the strongest general election candidate in the field of GOP contenders, according to the polls.On the Democratic side, the spirited battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is generating record turnouts of new Democratic voters, with huge increases especially in the female, African-American, and young adult demographics. Those new registrants will prove useful to the eventual nominee and to other Democratic candidates down the ballot come November.The purpose...